On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 07:01:10PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > > > and found an older message about it, so changing -lpari to -lpari-2.2 in my
> > > > Makefile solved it.
> > >
> > > My fault. That was a bad idea. I am working to fix that.
> >
> > On OS/2 it is quite useful.
>
> The goal was to allow to install both 2.1 and 2.2 along side. This is broken
> because there is only one include/pari directory for both so you can
> have only one set of header file installed in a specific location.
Your are mixing user space and developer's space. It failed for
developer sub-package, but it is a *must* for the user's sub-package.
Please try to not throw away the baby together with water.
> It is possible to support both runtime environment at the same time, but
> supporting both build environment is not really doable.
I see no problem if I need to -I the older build directories to
develop with the older headers. IMO, it is much more important to
have several runtime environments easily accessible.
Ilya